Cooking
Sam over at Becks & Posh keeps a really wonderful list of links to other Bay Area food and drink blogs on her site. Which in turn is how I discovered Molly's blog called Spicetart and this painfully familiar headline:
I have to quit my job.
How is it possible to work AND blog?
Well Molly, perhaps you should answer this ad...
Food Blog Editor & Publisher (anywhere)
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Reply to: [email protected]
Date: 2005-01-21, 7:34 AM PST
Are you obsessed with food and constantly focused on your next meal? This could be the job for you! Work from anywhere, internet access required (DSL or T1 connection recommended). No prior experience necessary.
Primary responsibility:
Must detail in writing and photographs, all food adventures including cooking, shopping, and dining out.
Requirements:
Excellent writing skills
Highly opinionated
Ability to prevent others from eating while hovering with digital camera
Energy and enthusiasm
Willingness to work nights and weekends
Fretting over traffic or site design, optional
Apply:
This is a full time position. We have an excellent benefits package (review copies of cookbooks, occasional bottles of wine, meals and chocolate tastings) and a flexible work environment. Salary is competitive for fictitious postings, but less than comparable for a salary in a real job.
Principals only. Recruiters, please don't contact this job poster.
Please, no phone calls about this job!
Please do not contact job poster about other services, products or commercial interests.
Reposting this message elsewhere is OK.
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Cooking
Blog Job Opening
Sam over at Becks & Posh keeps a really wonderful list of links to other Bay Area food and drink blogs on her site. Which in turn is how I discovered Molly's blog called Spicetart and this painfully familiar headline:
I have to quit my job.
How is it possible to work AND blog?
Well Molly, perhaps you should answer this ad...
Food Blog Editor & Publisher (anywhere)
-------------------------------------------
Reply to: [email protected]
Date: 2005-01-21, 7:34 AM PST
Are you obsessed with food and constantly focused on your next meal? This could be the job for you! Work from anywhere, internet access required (DSL or T1 connection recommended). No prior experience necessary.
Primary responsibility:
Must detail in writing and photographs, all food adventures including cooking, shopping, and dining out.
Requirements:
Excellent writing skills
Highly opinionated
Ability to prevent others from eating while hovering with digital camera
Energy and enthusiasm
Willingness to work nights and weekends
Fretting over traffic or site design, optional
Apply:
This is a full time position. We have an excellent benefits package (review copies of cookbooks, occasional bottles of wine, meals and chocolate tastings) and a flexible work environment. Salary is competitive for fictitious postings, but less than comparable for a salary in a real job.
Principals only. Recruiters, please don't contact this job poster.
Please, no phone calls about this job!
Please do not contact job poster about other services, products or commercial interests.
Reposting this message elsewhere is OK.
- The Joy Of Writing A Great Cookbook: Interview With Kimberly Yorio
If you want to be a food writer, I highly recommend that you read Will Write for Food by Dianne Jacob, but if writing a cookbook is your goal, you’ll also want to check out The Joy of Writing a Great Cookbook by Kimberly Yoirio. This no nonsense book...
- Blog Resources
I am blessed in that I always seem to have something to write about. Writing really does come easily to me most of the time. But I have to admit, I'm so excited at the prospect of going to the famed French Laundry tomorrow, that I'm actually a...
- More Great Food Sites
If you have discovered this blog you undoubtedly fall into one of two categories--friend and/or family of Amy OR hip, cool, cutting edge type. Or you could be both. Why? Because blogs are "the next big thing". Let's face it, when AOL catches on you...
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In a literal sense, I'm a professional food and wine writer; I earn money from my articles. In a figurative sense, it's a bit more vague; it's not my day job, and I've only been doing it for a few years. But I'd like to offer some...
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The other day, one of the wine makers I mentioned in my recent Paso Robles article wrote and asked for my shipping address. They wanted to send me a package. I asked what it was, because (as I said to them) I'm wary about packages from wine makers...